Locating Postmodernism within Modernism severs its link to stages of social development

Evidence

There are nevertheless considerably more subtle attempts to establish the existence of a distinctively Postmodern art than any considered so far. These conceive Postmodernism as a tendency within Modernism itself. Such an approach clearly involves a retreat from, or the rejection of the idea that Modernism and Postmodernism can be correlated in any very strong sense with distinctive stages of social development — say, respectively, industrial and postindustrial society. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 92

Categorization

• XREF: The register-Shift to ‘postmodernism as tendency within modernism’ weakens the base-superstructure mapping the reader’s research depends on, echoing the tension between discourse-determinism and power-analytic readings of Foucault.